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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:55:23 -0600
From:      Lorin Lund <lorin_lund@yahoo.com>
To:        Sleepless in Brisbane <snowy@snowy.org>, D M P <dmp@aracnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to get shutdown -p to work?
Message-ID:  <00100314581201.00463@Presario>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031959190.39388-100000@snowy.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031959190.39388-100000@snowy.org>

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On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Sleepless in Brisbane wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, D M P wrote:
> 
> > How do I get the -p option (turn off power on shutdown) to work?  The
> > shutdown(8) man page says hardware support is required.  I can only
> > think that this means the option requires the ATX design's soft-off
> > capability, but it doesn't seem to be working on my system--4.1-R on
> > an Intel Venus mainboard (PPro, VS440FX).  Any ideas?  Let me know if
> > you need more information.
> 
> Things like power off and such require you to have APM support compiled into
> the kernel.
> 
> 
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I have 4.0 RELEASE.  I had to add
en apm
to /boot/kernel.conf, as well as
enable_apm="YES"
in /etc/rc.conf

I think that is all I did to make it work.

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